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Description. Dr Linda Beamer’s presentation on cultural aspect of logic at the Department of Communication studies, Unitec, New Zealand.

Part I – http://youtu.be/6QVRiB7eVrA
Part II – http://youtu.be/t8rgYAhR3sg
Part III – http://youtu.be/J5RCINVg42Q
Part IV – http://youtu.be/FppqFsSS_AA

Keywords. Culture and cognition, Cross-cultural understanding, Cultural contexts, Logic, Reasoning, Argumentation, Ancient Greece, Chinese culture, Arabic cultures, Japanese culture

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

See on Scoop.it – Types of Communication, See on www.youtube.com

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Description. “This interaction-design tutorial titled Gestalt Principles is from chapter six of the Interaction Design Fundamentals course presented by lynda.com author David Hogue. This specific tutorial discusses Gestalt philosophy and how humans perceive the world as meaningful complete objects, not a series of independent parts.”

Keywords. Gestalt principles, Perception, Figure-ground, Law of Prägnanz, Proximity, Similarity, Closure, Common fate, Continuity, Symmetry

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. “Robert Desimone introduces keynote speaker Alan Alda at the 10th anniversary celebration of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. As the former host of the long-running PBS series, “Scientific American Frontiers,” Alda shares some advice on how scientists can communicate more effectively with the general public.”

Keywords. Training, Improvisational theatre games, Complex information, Conversational mode, Clarity, Center for Communicating Science

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

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connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional  invites and encourages you to propose a theme and guest edit a Special Issue of the journal:

• Special Issue 2(2): December 2013
• Special Issue 3(2): December 2014
• Special Issue 4(1): June 2015
• Special Issue 4(2): December 2015

Issue 3(1): June 2014 will be composed of regular submissions.

Please send your proposals for a Special Issue to Rosário Durão at editor@connexionsjournal.org. I will be glad to answer your questions.

To read the requirements for Special Issue proposals, please go to connexionsjournal.org/special-issues/

Thank you for considering organizing a Special Issue for connexions journal.

Rosário Durão
Editor
www.connexionsjournal.org
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Description. “Medical, legal, and financial documents should be easy to read, but too often they aren’t. With spot-on (and funny) examples, Sandra Fisher Martins shows how overly complex language separates us from the information we need — and three steps to change that. In Portuguese with English subtitles.”

Keywords. Documents, Understand, Literacy, Information apartheid, Plain language, Consumers, Citizens

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. pt [subtitles. en]

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Description. Judith Butler, post-structuralist philosopher and author, talking about precarity and the ethical obligations of geographical proximity through the perspectives of Emmanuel Lévinas and Hannah Arendt, with a response by Bracha Ettinger. In this lecture, Judith Butler discusses our ethical response to suffering at a distance, ethical obligations, geographical proximity, ethics, images of war suffering, Lévinas and Susan Sontag on the war image, the media, grounds for global responsibility, consent and communitarianism, the media’s role in proximity and distance, corporeal locatedness, mediated ethical relations, global connectedness, being moved, ethical philosophy and what it means to be ethical in these times; Lévinas on racial and cultural belonging, reciprocity – that egoism as the defeat of ethics itself, the life of the Other and the precarious and corporeal being, the call, vulnerability and ethical relations, cohabitation, the prerogative of genocide, politics and the necessity of cohabiting the earth, community, the notion of unwilled proximity and unchosen cohabitation, precarity, interdependency, ethics on a global scale. Bracha Ettinger responds with the subject and the body, the proto-ethical call and aesthetic phenomena, the uncanny anxiety, the vulnerability of the other, the non-I, transconnectedness, the self, the giving up of subjectivity, subjectivity as an encounter, the mode of co-emerging, affective access to the world, the passage of ethics to politics, interdependency, sharing and trans-sharing over distance and proximity.

Keywords. Ethics, Image, Media, Global, Local, Interdependency

Type. Presentation (lecture) | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. “The Web, society, information, cells and brain can all be represented and studied as complex networks of interactions. Nodes in such networks tend to organize into clusters and communities, which represent the fundamental structures for understanding the organization of complex systems. Even though detection of network communities is of significant importance for computer science, sociology and biology, our understanding of the community structure of large networks remains limited.
We study a set of more than 200 large networks with the goal to understand and identify communities in networks. We challenge the conventional view of network community structure and show that it is not exhibited by the large real-world networks. We then present a new conceptual model of network community structure, which reliably captures the overall structure of networks and accurately identifies the overlapping nature of network communities.”

Keywords. complexity, networks, communities, groups

Type. Presentation (lecture) | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. “Story has played a significant role in all cultures put its adoption into professional cultures has been painfully slow. It’s easier to present a report instead of a well-crafted presentation.”

Keywords. Storytelling, Culture, Report, Story, Presentation, Framework, Audience engagement

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. Jon Scharer introduces us to Communities of Practice (CoP) in this podcast. Communities of Practice, both for management and practitioners, have, for a variety of reasons, become more valued of late in the workplace. Listen as Scharer highlights two key factors necessary for ensuring the establishment and maintenance of an effective CoP.

Keywords. Communities of Practice (CoP), approaches, organization and organism, knowledge transfer, boundaries, relationships, members, roles

Type. Training podcast | Format. Podcast | Language. en

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Description. “Are you confident you can reason clearly? Are you able to convince others of your point of view? Are you able to give plausible reasons for believing what you believe? Do you sometimes read arguments in the newspapers, hear them on the television, or in the pub and wish you knew how to confidently evaluate them? In this six-part course, you will learn all about arguments, how to identify them, how to evaluate them, and how not to mistake bad arguments for good. Such skills are invaluable if you are concerned about the truth of your beliefs, and the cogency of your arguments.”

Keywords. arguments, critical reasoning, argument, reasoning, rhetoric

Type. Presentation (lecture) | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. “This is an edited version of a transatlantic interview we carried out with Sarah O’Keefe, CEO of our US partner Scriptorium Inc., on DITA. We discussed a range of topics relating to DITA, but these clips focus on the business case for DITA – why and when it makes sense to move to this standard for producing documentation.”

Part 1/4 – http://youtu.be/7AJfZALHr8U

Part 2/4 – http://youtu.be/i2q0BMTBRl8

Part 3/4 – http://youtu.be/UXSrHNynyBg

Part 4/4 – http://youtu.be/thUylZ3FaDM

Keywords. DITA, content re-use, localization, incremental publishing, ROI

Type. Interview | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. Content is the most important feature of the Internet. But do we really know what and how to write to attract users? We should do it with the same care as when writing for print, or a book. The major difference is the audience, which is potentially unlimited, and which you can use to your advantage. By the hand of Xosé Castro, you will learn the principles of writing for the 21st century. (trans.)

Keywords. Communication, Writing, Article, Social web, Language as cultural marker, Context, Purpose, Medium, Public, Client

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. es

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Description. For years, most Web teams have designed for the desktop. Mobile, if it even happened, was a port off the desktop version, designed and built before anyone even considered the mobile experience. This made perfect sense for a while. Browsing the Web on mobile phones was painful; carriers controlled access to the Web on their devices; and mobile network speeds made everything often grind to a halt. But things have changed so dramatically over the past few years that starting with the desktop may be an increasingly backwards way of thinking about a Web product. Designing for mobile first can not only open up new opportunities for growth, it can lead to a better overall user experience for a Web site or application. In this presentation, Luke Wroblewski will dig into the three key reasons to consider mobile first: mobile is seeing explosive growth; mobile forces you to focus; and mobile extends your capabilities

Keywords. Design, Interfaces, Mobile devices, Mobile applications, Desktop, Usage, Users

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. “Body language is a form of non-verbal communication, which consists of body posture, gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements. Humans send and interpret such signals almost entirely subconsciously.

John Borg attests that human communication consists of 93 percent body language and paralinguistic cues, while only 7% of communication consists of words themselves;[1] however, Albert Mehrabian, the researcher whose 1960s work is the source of these statistics, has stated that this is a misunderstanding of the findings[2] (see Misinterpretation of Mehrabian’s rule). Others assert that “Research has suggested that between 60 and 70 percent of all meaning is derived from nonverbal behavior.”[3]

Body language may provide clues as to the attitude or state of mind of a person. For example, it may indicate aggression, attentiveness, boredom, relaxed state, pleasure, amusement, and intoxication, among many other cues”

Keywords. Body language, Non-verbal communication, Signals

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. Over the past few decades information design has been in transition—moving from the creation of mainly paper-based communications to today’s mix of paper and electronic artifacts. Information designers’ repertoire must now include visual and verbal strategies for the Web. This shift in media compels us to ask what reading looks like in an electronic environment and to reconsider how people might engage with our content. To design effective electronic communications requires not only good writing and visual design but also an understanding of reading on the Web

Keywords. Reading, Information design, Technology, Rhetoric, Users

Type. Presentation (lecture) | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. Web on-the-go is now an everyday reality. It touches all of our lives from the moment we wake, to our commute, from work to an evening out on the town. This reality presents both an opportunity and an incredible challenge as Web content managers attempt to optimize customer engagement.

Keywords. Web content management, Localization, Globalization, Culture, Users

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. “Professor Timothy Coombs talks about the relations between social media and crisis communication. He shows some of the aspects that a communicator in a company should be aware of when communicating online, both before and during a crisis situation. Furthermore he explains the dos and donts for companies online.”

Keywords. Social media, Crisis communication, Crisis management, Online communication, Reputation, Credibility

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. “The past decade has seen incredible interest in applying information and communication technologies for international development, an endeavor often abbreviated “ICT4D.” Can mobile phones be used to improve rural healthcare? How do you design user interfaces for an illiterate migrant worker? What value is technology to a farmer earning $1 a day?

Interventionist ICT4D projects seek to answer these kinds of questions, but the excitement has also generated a lot of hype about the power of technology to solve the deep problems of poverty. In this talk, I will (1) present several myths of ICT4D that persist despite evidence to the contrary, (2) offer a theory of “technology as amplifier” which explains the gap between rhetoric and actuality, and (3) provide one key recommendation for successful ICT4D interventions. My hope is to temper the brash claims of technology with realism about its true potential.”

Keywords. HCI, Development communication, Rhetoric, Myths, ICT4D

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. “Design guidelines and tools exist for making web sites accessible for people with disabilities, but a majority of corporate and government web sites continue to be inaccessible. For the U.S. Federal government, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires that all web sites be accessible, however, a majority of Federal web sites are not in compliance, and site accessibility statements often provide little information. This presentation will provide information on recent research and recent policy activity related to web accessibility. Some recent research findings include studies of human interaction proofs, link structures, and web-based e-mail applications for blind users, and web browsing for expert users with Down syndrome. Some recent policy activities include the July memo from the Office of Management and Budget on Section 508 enforcement, the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking from the Justice Department on the accessibility of web information provided by entities covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the administrative complaint filed against Penn State University due to inaccessible campus technology.” (http://www.event.iastate.edu/event/24487/)

Keywords. Disability, Web Accessibility, Human-Computer Interaction

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. “The not very slow but definitely steady flow of computer technology into far corners of everyday life has changed fundamental cultural processes and affected how people work, learn, and play. It’s also provided lots of cool stuff to buy. But by some measures there has also been a somewhat fundamental failure of imagination in envisioning what hardware, software and services can look like which has resulted in users from outside targeted demographics adapting technology in unexpected and creative ways. One might argue that such examples of adaptation could serve as potentially valuable illustrations of what technology that is relevant across contexts could look like, if only users were seen as more than consumers – perhaps, also, as citizens.

This talk is about diversity of design, the cult of expertise, and why hackers are the good guys. It’s also about how people use technology in Cambodia and Kyrgyzstan, what user generated content looked like before PCs, and why EULAs fundamentally threaten innovation. Essentially, this talk lays out the argument that theories of subjectivity and axe grinders can be part of the same conversation, and that encouraging users to become hackers, builders, and thieves may be the best way to ensure creative and diverse design.”

Keywords. Design, Expertise, Technology, User-Generated Content, Creativity, Consumerism, Hackers

Type. Presentation | Format. Video| Language. en

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October 19-21, 2012, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

Conference website

The goal of the joint conference is to promote both theoretical and applied research in pragmatics, and bring together scholars who are interested in different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical, linguistic, cognitive, social, intercultural, interlanguage, etc.). Three parallel sessions will be held on the following topics:
(i) Pragmatics theories: neo-Gricean approaches, relevance theory, theory of mind, meaning, role of context, semantics-pragmatics interface, explicature, implicature, speech act theory, presuppositions, im/politeness, experimental pragmatics, etc.
(ii) Intercultural, cross-cultural an societal aspects of pragmatics: research involving more than one language and culture or varieties of one language, lingua franca, technologically mediated communication, bilinguals’ language use, intercultural misunderstandings, effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the development and use of pragmatic skills, language of aggression and conflict, etc.
(iii) Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, pragmatic competence, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic variations within one language and across languages, developmental pragmatics, etc.

Email address for inquires
AmPra12@gmail.com

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Pragmatics of the Americas Conference

Abstract deadline: 15, April 2012
Notification of acceptance: 1st June, 2012
Please, include your name, affiliation and e-mail address. Abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed, and should include sufficient details to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. All presentations will be in English.

Panel proposals are welcome. Panel organizers should send an abstract of the panel (max. 300 words) and abstracts of the panel participants as an email attachment to AmPra12@gmail.com. They can also submit their panel proposal at http://ampra.uncc.edu
The deadline for panels is the same as for papers, April 15th, 2012.

Conference language. en

Source. Deborah Bosley

Dear Colleagues,

A number of potential contributors for the 1st issue of connexions on “International Professional Communication: yesterday < today > tomorrow” have asked for a few more days to send in their manuscripts, so I am extending the deadline another week. If you have already started, but have not yet finished your position paper or literature review, or if you have a great idea, but have not yet got round to writing it down, you can still send in your complete 400-500 word Position Paper, or Literature Review for this issue (please note that the list of references is not part of the word count). The new deadline is Tuesday, February 7, 2012.

A very warm thank you to all the colleagues who sent in their manuscripts. They are highly appreciated, and forecast a very exciting issue.

Please continue forwarding this CFP to people who might be interested.

I will be glad to answer your questions.

Thank you.

Rosário Durão
Editor

editor@connexionsjournal.org
www.connexionsjournal.org

As the first issue of connexions journal will aggregate the points of view of practicing professionals, academics, and students to chart the map of the field, and we wish to collect many more contributions in order to get the broadest and most detailed view of the area, we are extending the deadline. The deadline submitting your manuscripts for the journal’s  1(1) issue is now January 31, 2012.

I would also like to clarify 3 points:

• the length of the final position statements and literature reviews is 400-500 words (I believe this is the ideal length to get a broad, yet detailed picture of the major trends and tendencies in the practice, teaching, and research of IPC and its context in the past, present and future),
• we request that you please not submit abstracts, only the final 400-500 word statements or reviews,
• when submitting a position paper, please describe discipline- and work-specific terms, concepts and implicit references, in order to cater for the journal’s diverse audience.

Thank you for considering writing a paper for the First Issue of connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional.

I will be glad to answer all your questions,

Best,

Rosário Durão
Editor
editor@connexionsjournal.org
connexionsjournal.org

There’s a new entry in our index of audio & video interviews and presentations from experts on topics related to international professional communication.

It is Susan Weinschenk‘s presentation “Neuro Web Design: What makes them click?” at UXLx2010, Lisbon, Portugal.

The lecture is indexed under Human Computer Interface and Interaction, and you can access it here.

Dear Colleague,

connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional (ISSN 1647-2373) places great emphasis on Special Issues as a unique means of promoting high-quality research in thematic areas related to international professional communication.

The journal accepts proposals from Guest Editors for issue 1(2): December 2012, until November 30, 2011 – just 2 days away!

You can read the requirements at http://connexionsjournal.org/special-issues/. Please send your proposal for this issue to me at editor@connexionsjournal.org.

Please also note that the deadline for proposals for special issues 2(1): June 2013, and 2(2): December 2013 has been extended to February 15, 2012.

I will be glad to answer your questions.

Best,

Rosário Durão
Editor
editor@connexionsjournal.org

Just a reminder that connexions journal is accepting proposals for Special Issues

• 1(2): December 2012
• 2(1): June 2013
• 2(2): December 2013

and that your proposal for one of these issues, especially issue 1(2), would be deeply appreciated.

Please send your proposals by November 30, 2011 to to editor@connexionsjournal.org.

You can view the requirements at http://connexionsjournal.org/special-issues/.

I will be glad to answer your questions.

Rosario Durão
Editor
connexionsjournal.org

Peter Sandman‘s presentation “Implementing Risk Communication: Overcoming the Barriers” is the most recent entry in our index of audio & video interviews and presentations from experts on topics related to international professional communication. The presentation is indexed under Information development & artifacts, and you can access it here.

Amparo Hurtado Albir‘s interview to Marcella De Marco is the newest addition to our index of audio & video interviews and presentations from experts on topics related to international professional communication. The interview was given to JOSTRANS – The Journal of Specialised Translation.

The presentation is indexed under Translation, interpretation, internationalization, localization, globalization, controlled languages, and you can access it here.

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Description. “Answering the question, “where are you,” seems perfectly straightforward. It is on the surface a question about location. However, location is not a straightforward as: I am here. Many of us own digital devices, services and applications that tell us where we are and where we should be going, or tell others where we say we are, or at least where might wish we were. In a world of GPS, 4-square, facebook places, checking in and google maps, how do we think about where we are? In this talk, Genevieve uses a series of ethnographic moments to challenge our notions of location, direction, and place to suggest some other ways of making sense of where we might be.”

connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional is now on Twitter and LinkedIn!

You’re welcome to join!

There’s a new entry in our index of audio & video interviews and presentations from experts on topics related to international professional communication. It is the interview on “Genres” Carolyn Miller and Charles Bazerman gave to the genres research group at the Federal University of Pernambuco, in Brazil. The lecture is indexed under Information development & artifacts, and you can access it here.

There’s a new entry in our index of audio & video interviews and presentations from experts on topics related to international professional communication.

It is Don Norman‘s presentation “Living with complexity” at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States.

The lecture is indexed under Information design and visual communication, and you can access it here.

There’s a second entry in our index of audio & video interviews and presentations from experts on topics related to international professional communication.

It is Sophie Hurst‘s presentation “Local is global: effective multilingual web strategies” at the W3C Workshop: Content on the Multilingual Web, held in Pisa, Italy.

The lecture is indexed under Communication and information management, and you can access it here.

connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional places great emphasis on Special Issues as a unique means of promoting research of the highest quality in thematic areas related to international professional communication.

I invite and encourage you to propose a theme and guest edit a Special Issue of the journal:

• Special Issue 1(2): December 2012
• Special Issue 2(1): June 2013
• Special Issue 2(2): December 2013
• Special Issue 3(2): December 2014

Issue 3(1): June 2014 will be composed of regular submissions.

Please send your proposals for a Special Issue to Rosario Durao at editor@connexionsjournal.org by November 30, 2011. I will be glad to answer your questions.

To read the requirements for Special Issue proposals here, please go to http://connexionsjournal.org/special-issues/.

Thank you for considering organizing a Special Issue for connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional.

Rosário Durão
Editor
editor@connexionsjournal.org

We are proud to announce the first entry in our index of audio & video interviews and presentations from experts on topics related to international professional communication.

We start with a video – a lecture by Karen Schriver on “Reading on the web, implications for online information design,” in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The lecture is indexed under Information design and visual communication, and you can access it here.

The first issue of connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional is aimed at practicing professionals, academics, and students working, teaching, researching, or learning about the area.

If you depend on efficient and effective communication to get your messages across and to understand the messages of others, and you have given considerable thought, and even spoken and written about the ways international professional communication influences, and is influenced by context, you might like to write a position paper or literature review for the journal.

Your point of view will help us chart the area of international professional communication in the past, present, and future.

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